Mini-HTTP Server

I started this implementation through the CodeCrafters challenge: "Build Your Own HTTP server". It provided a nice structure and good pointers to get started. The automated testing they do on every git push is really awesome.

Next Steps

• Document the implementation. Target audience: beginners in Rust and/or networking

Current implementation is very limited both protocol-wise and performance-wise. It only supports a mini fraction of the HTTP1 protocol and although the implementation is concurrent (multi-threaded), it is not asynchronous yet. So next steps to go more in depth may be:

• Protocol-wise
  • implement the complete protocol
  • add support for HTTP2 features
• Performance-wise
  • enable async (with/without Tokio?)
  • load-testing to monitor perf gains

Running the Server

Manual

1. Compile the Rust program into an executable binary: cargo build
2. Run the executable: ./target/release/flyweight-http-server

Shell Script

The compile_and_run.sh script automates the 2 steps described above.

You can simply run ./compile_and_run.sh and get the http-server going!